Read this slowly.
Think about it.
Roll it around in your mind and heart.
Listen, really listen to what is being said.
Consider it.
Pray over it.
Seek guidance in it.
Examine yourself in light of it:

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”

Read it once more, as if you are trying to convey this message for the first time to people who are going to learn about Christ and His love for the first time through these words. Understand the impact of what you are reading, the emotion, the magnitude and the source of this kind of love.

“Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.”

Measure yourself against this, knowing that it is God that defines love.
See Him in this way. He is love. Ask yourself, ‘What does patient love look like?’ And, ‘What does a selfless love convey?’ Or, ‘How do I love others by rejoicing in truth?’
Seek to grow in these ways.

“As for prophecies, they will pass away;
as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.”

Everything we see and experience in this life is temporary.
Everything our flesh desires to cling to is tainted by sin and will one day be less than dust. But in spite of all that, love will remain.
What are you building on? What are you working toward? What are you investing yourself in?

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV

GoLove someone today. Be Christ to them. Be His hands, feet, mouth and heart. Show them His wondrous love and let Him lead.